Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-28
DULL AND PR0SY.
A VERY QUIET MEETING OF THE CITY
COUNCIL.
The Members Get Together Late and Quit Early
Nothing Unusual Coming Up
for Action.

Council WAS again very slow IN getting
together last night, it being after eight
o'clock when enough members were visi-
BILE in the Second Branch to warrant Mr..
Caldwell in calling the Branch to order
and moving that Mr.. Harrell take the
chair. The motion prevailed, and the
members proceeded to pay the least posi-
BILE amount OF attention while the Clerk
read the minutes of the past three Or four
meetings. This formality concluded, the
regular semi-monthly financial report OF
Clerk Bowers, was presented and ordered
fled. 1t show a total balance to the credit
of the several Boards aud departments OF
S59, 43l So, as follows: Board of Public
Works, So, pit IS; fire, 81, 046. 90; health,
1910. so; markets, ], 023 SO; police, $3,OlG.-
"a; city prison, {69S 10; scales, 81 %; real
estate, $3.50 81 cemeteries, 1882 SO; salaries,
$64l. 50; contingencies, 1868 Al; Water
Board, s., 1913. OF; gas works, SlS, DOB. 96.
The Committee on Health reported bills
aggregating $4l.25. The committee made
report upon the petition Of Cole x Gro
niager, allowing them 10 erect and operate
their soap factory at Seventeenth and Me
Culloch streets, tor the term OF one year,
provided no rendering WAS done on the
premises; recommended that tine ordinance
In regard to garbage contractors be Iecon-
structed, and also reported for passage the
ordinance creating City Board of Health,
TO be composed of the City Health officer
and the Council Committee Oh Health.
The bills were ordered paid; the recon-
mendation regarding the garbage iordl-
nance adopted, and the Board OF Health
ordinance read a first time, when it went
over on Mr. Garvin's objection, and was
ordered printed.
The Committee on Finance made re-
port concerning the statemcnts OF tue
commissioners of the various loans, a5 de
tailed in the REGISTER Of yesterday. The
committee recommended the payment ol
bills for commissions, etc, agSregatlng
1882 %, and payment was ordered. The
committee also recommended the passage
of the temporary appropriation orci-
nance, providing for the expenditure OF
sums not exceeding in tue aggregate one
fourth of the appropriations in 1857, by
the various Boards and departments, and
also for the payment of interest and re-
deInption of bonds falling due in January,
February and March, ls53. The orGi-
nance was passed.
The Committee on Real Estate reported
bills aggregating $67.4O, which were Or
dered paid.
Mr.. Cruise offered the following resolu-
| tom
| ReSOIred, That the Committee on Railroads
he instructed TO confer with the officials
Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
| pauy ~ to whether arrangements cannot
be agreed upon which would result i'll the
removal OF said company's track from
Sixteenth street aud placing the same on
Seventeenth street. and crossing Wheeling
creek, under such regulations as may be
agreed upon.
Adopted.
4 number OF petitions for the correction
Of erroneous assessments, etc, were re-
TERED to the Board of Equalization and
Appeals.
4 communication from DR.. T. e. Myers
President of the County Board of Health,
was laid the table without Ieadlng
Adjourned.